Its pragmatic focus is to stimulate the emergence of new scholarly communicationmodels that expand the dissemination of scholarly research and reduce financial pressures on libraries.
These organizations are taking advantage of the full range of innovations available, incorporating technology in curriculum planning and delivery, classroom management, teacher training and parent communication to create new models for providing excellent, affordable K-12 education.
New technologies, especially disruptive ones, bring with them new business models, new forms of measurement, new modes of communication and ultimately entirely new practices.
Smart companies are building new business models leveraging trends such as M2M which is simply the direct communication between objects and systems without the need for human intervention.
New businesses and business models have emerged to make the most of the personal location information and social communication so easily shared through iPhone apps, and the successful ones have spread across all smartphone platforms.